skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote an XSS worm that turns people's names into "yay" (and the worm code) but made myself immune to it. Now someone will have to figure out how to write a counter-worm to remove the worm from the lightsaber population. Until then, the "name" feature will be permanently held hostage (by the yay worm)
> You can put up a solar panel tomorrow and start generating power.

And you don't spend 10,000 years hoping & working to make sure nothing goes wrong with the 95% of fuel (unburned) & decommissioned reactors debris you wind up with in the end.

There are good tech answers to try to decrease these problems, but they'd involve building more advanced nuclear fuel lifecycle reactors. Which no one is going to fund. Especially since waste seems to be externalized from generation.
Funny they should mention power drills, as it calls to mind Neal Stephenson's diversion about the Hole Hawg in In the Beginning Was the Command Line. The Hole Hawg is as intuitive as a power drill gets: pull the trigger, spinny end spins. You just have to be careful that it doesn't snag on anything or it will spin you instead of the drillbit.

There's a joke that goes "Unix is a very user friendly OS; it's just picky about its friends." And the truth behind that is that Unix -- what Stephenson called the Hole Hawg of operating systems -- works in a way that's fairly straightforward and understandable -- or it was for a 70s/80s OS. But like the industrial-strength drill it is very powerful and will do exactly as instructed -- even if that will harm you or your work if sufficient care is not exercised in its use.

So a lot of what we call "ease of use" comes in the form of guardrails that protect the ignorant from themselves -- like the torque setting on the drill -- or features which were designed for particular use cases and don't make much sense in the general case. My favorite example is the percent key on a calculator, which works in a way that completely violates my mathematician's intuition for percentages. Like I'd expect to be able to express 30% by typing 3, 0, % and getting 0.3. And on a scientific calculator that's exactly what you might get. But on a normie's calculator, the percent key works completely differently: it serves as a substitute for the = key, except it takes the second operand as a percentage of the first operand. It's good for calculating tax, tips, and discounts -- and almost nothing else. Like 6% sales tax on an item costing $15.87 would be 15.87 + 6 % . And a 15% discount on a $23.44 item would be 23.44 - 15 %.

If you want to be the next Apple, stop to think about the tasks you envision normies doing with your thing and build around those tasks, making them stupidly easy, at the expense of a cohesive general system design. Of course you may miss and become the next Rabbit, but big risks yield big rewards.

I dunno where I'm going with this. It seems I've become as rambly and incoherent as the original article.
I just keep my eye on https://ollama.com/library?sort=newest

The OS leaders are fairly obvious with phi3, Wizardlm2, and lamma3 head of the pack.

My favorite go-to has been nous-hermes2-mixtral.
I just read this whole thread, and it's all very silly. You've laundered "I don't like the water" into "it is not recommended that you drink the water" which are really different things. The latter implies that there is a consensus understanding about this, the way there is for, say, Guatemala. 200+ million Americans drink their tap water, and most visitors do too. There are many parts of the US where water could be improved, especially in lower-density places and especially for recently-discovered contaminants, but the idea that travelers need to be careful about it as a matter of safety just isn't true. Flint is a huge news story precisely because it is so aberrant in a country with otherwise good water.
It's easy to like plug-in hybrids (I do), but it does feel transitional. As you pointed out, you have the potential for higher maintenance costs, _plus_ during electric operation, you carry the weight of ICE, fuel, fancy transmission, etc. which makes electric operation less efficient. And vice versa, during ICE operation you have a big battery and motor to carry around, reducing fossil fuel efficiency. I guess you could add a boiler and coal hopper for tri-modal steam operation.

One caveat is, depending on your workload, you might put only 25% of the time on the ICE per mile driven (since most short trips would be electric). I.e. if an ICE car runs the engine for 2,500 hours per 100,000 miles, a plug-in hybrid might only have run the engine 500-600 hours at 100k miles.
Related (one of the buildings in the article) [0] (18 points, yesterday, 23 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40242303
Depends on where you get your numbers:

“The density of sodium batteries is still relatively low, between 140 Wh/Kg and 160 Wh/kg, compared to lithium-ion battery’s 180 Wh/Kg–250 Wh/Kg.”

https://www.flashbattery.tech/en/sodium-batteries/
ARIN NRPM 6.4.1. Address Space Not to be Considered Property

> It is contrary to the goals of this document and is not in the interests of the Internet community as a whole for address space to be considered freehold property.

> The policies in this document are based upon the understanding that globally-unique IPv6 unicast address space is allocated/assigned for use rather than owned.

https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/nrpm/#6-4-1-address-...
If you don't use a VPN I'll note that they have a DNS service that is free. I think this demonstrates some support, at least in the way that increased traffic/usage can be support (and should help make Mullvad VPN users stand out less WRT DNS requests). The only downside I'll say is that the ping time for me is quite a bit higher than quad9 or cloudflare.

I wrote some info about it in this thread[0], including how you can do ad blocking at the DNS level (and cloudflare info for the same).

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40056162
A coal power plant costs $2M - $5M per megawatt just in capital costs. A solar plant costs $1M per MW. Given a coal capacity factor of 0.9 and a solar of 0.3, they're roughly equivalent.

A coal power plant is similar to a nuclear plant -- they heat water to turn a turbine to generate water. There's no way a nuclear plant would ever be cheaper than a coal plant to build, and it would have to be to be competitive with solar in cost.
When are we going to have mass protests against the private equity takeover of everything? Besides climate change and war, I’m hard pressed to think of anything that will have as much of a negative impact on society.
Rust to .NET compiler – Progress update
> Years of promoting f-droid and custom android roms did far less for software freedom than the EU telling Apple they need to open up their platform

It is way too early to call that this will result in a net benefit for software freedom.

We already have a platform—Android—that provides the freedoms that the EU is mandating Apple now provide. What we are getting is a second platform that now cannot provide an alternative type of service to consumers. That honestly feels like a net loss in consumer choice, not progress.
Is this changing bones in 3D space? Or is it creating a 2D open pose kind of thing?

Can it be run in comfyui?
I've had a Volt since 2018 and there's basically been almost no "maintenance" on the ICE. Just an oil change every two years. Maybe I'm due for a coolant flush or something, I dunno. It has 120,000km on it.

The most maintenance on this car ever has just been the breaks, because like most EVs, they're prone to corroding because they don't get used as much due to regeneration.

The "ICE is a maintenance problem" thing is honestly kind of a bogus argument borne out by people's hunches, rather than reality. Most reliable vehicle I've ever owned, and, yeah, I am about 95% electric only on it.
All subscriptions are unreasonable.
Regulatory capture is likely the most important component. People complain about government spending, but those close to progressive issues can tell you that it's just as likely, if not more likely, to be remarkably stingy when it wants to be. The issue isn't government, it's who's using government; access to capital on top of that government influence gets you a lot closer to that bottomless wallet.
Why do I need to sue Discord?

If Discord did something actually bad enough to warrant me suing them, I'm not going to let this deter me. I highly doubt I will ever need to do that. They're not going to make me lose my job or my limbs or worse.

This is just a company protecting itself from theoretical maximal downside, which any company will seek to do.
What if I'm not in the location I care about? Musicians are famously people who are often on the road.
Global 24/7 operations in a litigious industry is going to take a lot of people.

Then they have over 615 million users. That’s a lot of overhead in customer support, billing, etc.

Then they’re expanding into incredibly diverse markets like India. How do you expand in India? Do you hire 5 Norwegians? No you open offices in India, lots of offices, because there’s over a billion people there.

Ultimately the need to expand into complex markets like India, China, and South America is going to take a lot of people growth. With people growth there are inefficiencies. And it’s an explanation that answers a lot of these questions with Google headcount for example.
Well, at risk of causing you ire, I won’t regale anecdotally how that one course of mushrooms was somehow better than 15 years of boner weakening, orgasm preventing, suicide ideating, hunger spiking, ever rotating slurry of anti-depressants.

Just can’t put my finger on why they didn’t make me feel better, you know.
Why does the government even borrow? [video]
Planers aren't so bad once you get into power feeders, which can be gotten as cheap as $500 with a DW735. (Yeah you can get a power feeder for a table saw too; it's $500 and more like $1500 just for the feeder!)

The others: very, very yes. Very yes. Jointers too. Jointers exist to show malice.
Sure we do. It's e-fuels like hydrogen. Yes, the round trip efficiency sucks, but for year-long storage the cost of inefficiency is very low (compared to system capital cost), because there are so few charge-discharge cycles.

A simple cycle gas turbine might be $0.6/W, vs. $10/W for a new nuclear power plant. So we can back up the grid with these turbines for a very small fraction of the cost of building nuclear power plants to power the grid.
I was a big fan of passkeys until I learned that it basically lets services/websites decide how/where you are allowed to store your keys, effectively preventing you from exporting them or creating a backup. (attestation)

This is catastrophic for user freedom and this conversation isn't happening enough.

Related comment:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39706876
Spotify AI rejects playlist generation request for lack of inclusivity
We have collected all the documentation from the WHIM Wheelchair development effort at https://wiki.replimat.org/wiki/Wheelchairs
reCAPTCHA protects your website from fraud and abuse

!!!without creating friction.!!!

I have to laugh.

The better thing would be to throw away their terrible, fossilized dinosaur called recaptcha and copy some of the competitors, at least those are not annoying and doesn't force the user to do their idiotic games.
This isn’t architect level planning. Even a junior developer should be able to work from vague requirements and build a mental like that.
An ESP32/ESP8266 with ESPHome's built-in Thermostat controller [0] and a relay (or solid state switch) board with optoisolation.

There are a few other options that are pre-made, like this [1], or that offer guidelines for DIYing it [2]

[0]: https://esphome.io/components/climate/thermostat.html

[1]: https://joestump.github.io/hass/esp8266-thermostat/

[2]: https://youtu.be/WgDV-PlD3AE?si=74iQeFaVBgZcmTVp
> Unless they’re incredibly talented instrumentalists (usually not the case, they find bands) at a certain point it becomes either a jam sesh (not interested) or you become a producer for someone who isn’t very good.

For the case of instrumentalists finding bands -- the times I've used sites like this in the past are right after a move or considering stepping out of the music scene that I've been in (going from techno back to bass).

Also I feel like the Tinder-like mechanics would be suited to cities with big music scenes. You're right that it's easy to just stumble into everyone in smaller places. What I've enjoyed some on musician-finding sites is the ability go genre shopping to some extent. Sometimes I run across stuff I think I'd enjoy playing that probably wouldn't have popped out of my social network.
This feels like a giant waste of energy that could be put into better causes. The number of people who are eligible to opt out now (those who already opted out in previous iterations) is microscopic compared to Discord's wider user base, and I would be absolutely shocked if a single person involved in this actually ends up suing Discord either individually or as part of a class.

Whether or not you believe forced arbitration is bad, it seems like there have to be higher value causes to get up in arms about right now.
Creating fiefdoms and executing layoffs isn't really invaluable institutional knowledge.
Do you mean Kagi Ultimate? I was under the impression that the Pro plan didn't have access to GPT4.
Cogent Announces IPv4 Address Securitization Offering
Limiting state is the big problem here in my opinion. I’ve also noticed the tendency of AI tools to just add more variables to make things work, which is fine for write-only code, but makes it harder for humans and AI tools to maintain it in the future.

However I think this is also the hard bit for humans to do. It’s one of the most frequent stumbling blocks I see for more junior engineers, and one of the things I notice most when working with code from people who are really good programmers.
This is awesome. I have been using ChatGPT4 for almost a year and haven't really experimented with locally running LLMs because I assumed that the processing time would take too long per token. This demo has shown me that my RTX 2080 running Llama 3 can compete with ChatGPT4 for a lot of my prompts.

This has sparked a curiosity in me to play with more LLms locally, thank you!
Great stuff dga :)

Turns out, Niall was also involved in one of the winning ZPrize submissions for fast multi-scalar multiplication (closely related to batch modexp, although over an elliptic curve rather than mod a prime); I assume it inherits from his work on CGBN.

He give a very nice talk about it last year at a Stanford crypto lunch, and it turns out the slides and recording are online!

https://cbr.stanford.edu/seminarTalks/slides_20230526_niall_...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAWlySN7Hm8
Not in place of all the other comments but in addition: there are approximately 15 million undergrad schools in the US. Cal, CA community college (of which there are many also), Stanford plus a requirement to line-up class credits - are far from the only options.

You could look for schools that better hit your interests: more aggressive CS, some business orientation, higher-ranking student population, city-oriented, coastal, entrepreneurial clubs perhaps, NOT small-town, older students and their activities (graduate CS, graduate business, etc)... And at this stage it's not the end of the world if you loose a few classes of credits. If you want to finish that degree and perhaps more you need a school that can support that. You need a school where there are too many things you'd like to do (although not necessarily all provided by the school). Now that you have some baseline to decide on a school, you are in a better situation for a better choice. Take your time before you make it this time.
In the US a mere warrant is not enough to pierce doctor patient privilege, afaik. At least i would hope it would take a subpoena or a court order or something of the ilk.

Now, though, if a third party accidentally leaks your patient info, or lead pipes are involved
https://archive.ph/8WP8M
From the various graphics there is not data suggesting that. Its increase year by year is in line with previous pre-pandemic years.
Article seems to suggest moderation of nuclear post Fukushima caused shift to renewables when PRC simply wants as much clean domestic energy generation as possible. No one expected renewable prices to drop this fast, or PRC to kill real estate to free up millions of construction labourers whoes skills can transfer into renewables but not nuclear.

Currently, PRC now largely hitting nuclear construction targets fine after switching to domestic nuclear. What PRC couldn't seem to do, like the west, is build _western_ nuclear tech economically, because industry seems to be a mess. 2010s nuclear ambition under 13th 5-year plan was delayed largely due Fukushima reassessement and drama over original pursuit of western nuclear tech (French EPR / US AP1000 technical and political issues like US sanctions / Westinghouse bankruptcy), adding delays, forcing PRC planners to switch to domestic tech, which is now coming online at expected pace. Current 14th 5-year plan still aiming for ~180-200 GWe by 2035 with ~150 total reactors, which is in line with mid 2010s assessments. IMO as more nuclear comes online, and associated nuclear expertise, there's likely going to be faster improvement on nuclear side. Not unlikely next gen nuclear will beat economics of renewables + storage.
According to the book The origins of woke, you can't, because corporations mostly do DEI to avoid being sued by the government.
Amazing! It's surprisingly fast to load and run given the size of the downloaded models.

Do you think it would be feasible to extend it to support web browsing?

I'd like to help if you could give some pointers on how to extend it.

When asked about web browsing, the bot said it could fetch web pages but then obviously didn't work when asked to summarize a web page.

[EDIT] The Llama 3 model was able to summarize web pages!
What I think he means is that when you program, you take terms that has specific meanings (in whatever abstract machine the compiler/interpreter embodies) and arrange them according to the rules in order to describe the steps of a solution so that the machine can solve it automatically. The syntax are not that actually important, you can compose new terms from basic terms and create a language that way. You abstract that way, expanding or reducing the vocabulary you have to work with, finding some specific relations between the term that facilitates describing (paradigms). Syntax is important because the machine only understand those specific terms arranged in those specific ways. It just that the set of problem it can solve is very large, the solutions more so, and your program is just only one element. Solving the problem is not programming, restricting it to what the machine can do is. And for that syntax is what you got, because that's what the machine accept.
Sorry for making you feel this way. Anything specific bothering you?
I've read quite a number of these (can't help but notice the 7 lists have plenty of dupes), but.. a lot of these titles are on the PodCast If Books Could Kill[0] - a podcast that targets "airport books", popular nonfiction books often marketed as pop science or smart thinking that might be found in airport bookshops (and have poor arguments, poor data use, factual errors, unsound conclusions, overgeneralizations).

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Books_Could_Kill
> The advantage with Sodium Ion is that, although energy densities are lower than Lithium Ion, it could still be used to power mobile devices and electric vehicles.

There is an insightful comment by AtlasBarfed:
Keep in mind sodium ion and LFP are much safer and don't require nearly as much cooling and management systems as nickel-cobalt chemistries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363603

Read the whole comment, it is pretty detailed and explains why the lower density of Sodium Ion doesn't matter as much as people think.
> Overall energy usage is increasing, outpacing % growth of renewables.

This is why I pointed out per capita emissions. If renewables had a bigger proportion, then it would decrease. It didn't. In fact it accelerated.
I'm curious of the utility of writing Rust code but wanting to run it on the CLR.

If anything, a GraalVM target would make more sense, as it's already gaining traction for this type of thing (although, usually interpreted langs like python, ruby, etc). Even there, the utility of running Rust on a JVM target also seems dubious.

TFA doesn't mention an intended use-case. Perhaps it's an academic endeavor?
Larry Summers shows once again that "serious economists" are as reliable as "serious astrologers"...
> So what? They've invested a large amount of capital in order to avoid low $0.13/kWh residential electricity rates that come from more or less entirely carbon-free sources

As per PSE (the power company for the Seattle Metro but outside of Seattle itself), only 23% of the energy sent to surrounding areas outside of Seattle city proper is from hydro. FWIW Nuclear is less than 1%. 46% is fossil fuels, natural gas and coal.

As for the payback period on solar installs, it made a lot of sense a few years ago when the state had incentives.

With the ability to bank credit, plenty of people around Seattle who have solar panels are only paying for electricity for 3 or so months of the year.

Is it a slam dunk? There is probably better ROI on an index fund, but it is not a money losing proposition by any means.
As a bit of context: Bees and wasps are in the taxonomic order Hymenoptera, which they also share with ants. It is the only order of insects [0] besides Isoptera (termites) with complex social systems and division of labor.

Ants, of course, also have a division of labor and, if I understand the terminology, a 'social system'. I wonder if every family/genus/species in Hymenoptera has these capabilities, including learning complex behavior.

[0] I'm not sure if precisely, those are the only such orders among insects (class Insecta) or among all arthropods (phylum Arthropoda).
https://www.berlinmusiker.de/
That's fair and interesting but I have always found this mentally demanding - to do deliberately. Which means this is hard to do for someone who is already in distress. Any pointers for how (distressed) people might practically go about it?
> ... students will spend time figuring out how to fix that and learn the language grammar this way.

That is a cute thought. Instead, they do submit the LLM generated code as is, messed up or not, and still expect to get full grade.